Drag (physics)

Quality:

Drag - retarding force on a body moving in a fluid. Article "Drag (physics)" in English Wikipedia has 70.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 38 references and 20 sections.

In this language version of Wikipedia the article has the best quality. Also, this article is the most popular in that language version.

Since the creation of article "Drag (physics)", its content was written by 480 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1537 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 1564 times in English Wikipedia and cited 7537 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #3704 in August 2003
• Global: #8148 in October 2008

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #4816 in November 2011
• Global: #8613 in November 2011

There are 42 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Drag (physics)		70.2636
2	Serbo-Croatian (sh) Aerodinamički otpor		63.4069
3	Chinese (zh) 阻力		57.2592
4	Romanian (ro) Rezistență la înaintare		52.2066
5	Spanish (es) Resistencia (fluidos)		50.9484
6	Turkish (tr) Sürükleme		44.3493
7	German (de) Strömungswiderstand		42.2137
8	Hebrew (he) גרר (כוח)		41.7293
9	Serbian (sr) Аеродинамички отпор		39.5607
10	Croatian (hr) Aerodinamički otpor		39.1665

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drag (physics)		8 533 664
2	German (de) Strömungswiderstand		1 342 524
3	Japanese (ja) 抗力		893 641
4	Russian (ru) Лобовое сопротивление		771 370
5	French (fr) Traînée		644 070
6	Polish (pl) Opór aero(hydro)dynamiczny		542 564
7	Italian (it) Resistenza fluidodinamica		394 478
8	Chinese (zh) 阻力		390 454
9	Dutch (nl) Stromingsweerstand		323 261
10	Spanish (es) Resistencia (fluidos)		230 285

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Drag (physics)		16 296
2	French (fr) Traînée		2 437
3	German (de) Strömungswiderstand		2 093
4	Russian (ru) Лобовое сопротивление		1 743
5	Japanese (ja) 抗力		1 555
6	Korean (ko) 항력		1 097
7	Simple English (simple) Drag (physics)		1 086
8	Chinese (zh) 阻力		1 023
9	Italian (it) Resistenza fluidodinamica		798
10	Polish (pl) Opór aero(hydro)dynamiczny		776

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Drag (physics)		480
2	German (de) Strömungswiderstand		130
3	French (fr) Traînée		104
4	Italian (it) Resistenza fluidodinamica		66
5	Dutch (nl) Stromingsweerstand		61
6	Russian (ru) Лобовое сопротивление		57
7	Hebrew (he) גרר (כוח)		49
8	Polish (pl) Opór aero(hydro)dynamiczny		48
9	Chinese (zh) 阻力		40
10	Hungarian (hu) Közegellenállás		38

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Romanian (ro) Rezistență la înaintare		1
2	Arabic (ar) مقاومة مائع		0
3	Azerbaijani (az) Sürütlənmə qüvvəsi		0
4	Belarusian (be) Лабавое супраціўленне		0
5	Catalan (ca) Arrossegament		0
6	Czech (cs) Odpor prostředí		0
7	Danish (da) Luftmodstand		0
8	German (de) Strömungswiderstand		0
9	Greek (el) Αντίσταση (μηχανική ρευστών)		0
10	English (en) Drag (physics)		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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